Abstract: A pallet having a pair of shoulders raised from opposing sides of a deck, a pair of legs extending downwardly from the sides of the deck, and a third leg extending downwardly from a central portion of the deck, the third leg having at least one foot. The shoulders including an inner upper seating surface and an outer upper seating surface. The pair of legs each including an inner support surface vertically offset from an outer support surface. The inner upper seating surface and the outer upper seating surface of the pallet configured to cooperate with the outer support surface of each of the pair of legs of a second pallet stacked atop the pallet to align the two pallets to one another such that the legs of the second pallet do not disengage from the first pallet.

Abstract: A computer system, including at least one host (processor and operating system), a channel subsystem and at least one switch (together with an associated switch controller) for switchably connecting an I/O device (together with an associated I/O device control unit) to a host via said channel subsystem, in combination with means for dynamically managing I/O connectivity in said computer from each host. The I/O manager's functions are centralized at the host level across the computer system. Each host is responsible for an instance of the manager.